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Status: Customer BetaPurpose: Features, Improvements, FixesRequirements: A valid product key (for Affinity Store purchases), or an installation of the full retail version from the Microsoft Store

As this is a beta it is considered to be not suitable for production use. This means that you should not attempt to use it for commercial purposes or for any other activity that may be adversely affected by the application failing, including the total loss of any documents. We hope you enjoy the latest build, and as always, if you've got any problems, please don't hesitate to post a new thread in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks once again for your continued feedback.

If you have a general question about the software, please head over to the Questions Forum, or if you have any suggestions, please head over to the Feature Requests forum.

Fixes

Added support for HDR monitors (new HDR options in 32-bit Preview panel, now visible by default in Photo)

Fixed stroke phase failing to work when adjusting dashed line

Fixed creating palette from CMYK images imports as RGB

Fixed brush body option not reflecting the correct value

Fixed Flip/Rotate toolbar icons not correctly reflecting the state they're in

Updated Welcome Screen

Fixed 'Open folder in Explorer' not working with special characters

Fixed Expression trig functions to use degrees by default (same as 1.6) - in previous 1.7 patches, angles had become radians

Fixed failure to report errors when exporting single items

Improved handling of non-displayable characters (control and formatting characters could be presented due to copy+paste from web pages, etc.)

Fixed drag and drop not honouring the insertion target

Added support for TIFFs with old-style JPEG compression

Fixed colour picker clamping values in 32-bit documents

Fixed crash when converting documents to 32-bit

Select tool will share common options with related tools

Added option for continuing the selection when adding new curves in Pen tool

Renamed "Show Rotation Centre" => "Enable Transform Origin"

Added User Rotation Centre to Node tool transform mode

Changed "Add to Curves" mode, to clear other selected objects when closing a curve

Fixed Colour panel's Lab opponent sliders to go from 0 to 32768 rather than 32896